Automatic brake for wagons and carriages



(N5 Model.)

S. KENNEDY.

AUTOMATIC BRAKE FOR WAGONS AND GARRIAGES.

No. 326,658. Patented Sept. 22, 1885..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SYLVESTEE KENNEDY, OF GAP, PENNSYLVANIA.

AUTOMATIC BRAKE FOR WAGONS AND CARRIAGES.

\ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,658, dated September 22, 1885.

Application filed March 21, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- as it would do in any other coupling behind 50 Be it known that I. SYLVEsTER KENNEDY, the axle. The tongue being loose, the draftis a citizen of the United States, residing at by the clevis coining against the front axle Gap, in the county of Lancaster and State of and bolster; also from the enlargement of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and reach behind the rear axle and bolster at the useful Improvements in Brakes for WV-agons same time, thus differing from arigid tongue, and Carriages, of which the following is adei where the draft is all from the hounds and scription. king-bolt. Having neither king-bolt nor The nature of my invention consists in an pivot. and the body rigidly fastened to the to automatic or self-acting brake for either l front bolster and hind axle, a swivel is used wagons or carriages, and is adapted to and I on the front axle for turning. 5 may be used on any four-wheeled vehicle, By my arrangement of brakes a much whet-her with or without springs, the plan greater leverage is made against the wheels and workingofwhich are fully set forth in the than that in common use. annexed specification and drawings. Having a rigid connection of the body both Figure l is aplan top View; Fig. 2, a side to the front bolster and hind axle and no 6; View; and Fig. 3, a short tongue. with shaftrollers. the invention is as well designed for bar attached, to be inserted in place of long spr ng-carriages as for heavy or light wagons. tongue to be used for one horse. in operating my invention on descending A represents the reach; B, the lever to pre ground the tongue and reach slide through vent the brake from acting when backing; C, l both front and back axles and holsters and t tongue; D, doubletree; E, hind hounds, oon force the brakes against the wheels. and as nected by plates above and below, through the descent lessens the brakes are drawn off which the reach slides; F, the front hounds and the draft commences. If necessary to and same connection through which the back the wagon,turnthelever B intothe hole tongue passes; H, the brake-lever; I, the M; then to go forward, turn the lever back to 75 staple attached to the reach, in which the its place. in a carriage this may be done by brake-lever acts to force the brakes against the foot at the foot-rest.

the wheels; K, the swivel allowing the body Having thus fully described my invention, freedom to act in turning; L, the bolster, to what I claim as new, and desire to secure by which the swivel is attached; M, a hole in the Letters Patent, is 80 reach, into which the lever B can be made to 1. A sliding tongue and reach passing drop in backing. N is the clevis, into which through both axles, or between axles and the tongue is connected by a bolt through bolsters, and connected together by a bolt 5 both. N represents the axle; O, the back through clevis and tongue immediately be,-

part of the reach,enlarged so as to form draft bind the front axle, this clevis being of suffi- 8 at hind axle; P, the shaft-bar on short tongue cient length to act as a slider,and at the same for fastening shafts to. time to lorin a draft against the front axle, this In my invention the tongue and reach slide reach being also enlarged behind the rear l 0 through the hounds both front and back, and axle, so as to form a draft against the rear alsothe axle, or between the bolsters and axles, axle, having draft both against the front and c and not rigidly connected to either, the only rear axles. connection being the tongue being bolted in 2. A staple in the reach to force back the the front part of the clevis in the reach. brakes against the wheels. There being no bounds behind the front axle T to sustain a slider to keep up the tongue, this SYLVESTER KENNEDY clevis is so constructed as to act as a slide to WVitnesses: keep up the tongue, and at the same time pre- A. P. KENNEDY, vent the brake from drawing down the reach, HENRY FOX. 

